TWENTY-THREE: recruitment?

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"Look, you want answers, you want anything else you get them when you put down the gun." Alex pleaded.

Rick wasn't going to give in to the man's pleads. "I see your man on the roof with the sniper rifle. How good's his aim? Where'd you get the watch?" Rick said tightening his grip on the man.

"Look I have thi! You just put it down "Alex yelled at the sniper. "You wanna listen to me. There's a lot of us." the man said to Rick.

"Where'd you get the watch?" Rick yelled in the man's ear.

"I got it off of a dead one. I didn't think he'd need it." Alex lied.

I locked eyes with one of the men across the courtyard and aimed my weapon at him while Rick yelled at Alex some more. "Where'd you get the riot gear? The poncho?"

"Got the riot gear off a dead cop. Found the poncho on a clothesline" Gareth said as he appeared from the shadows.

"Gareth we can wait" Alex struggled to say through Rick's grasp.

"Shut up, Alex" Gareth commanded,

"You talk to me" Rick growled at Gareth.

I can see Gareth take a couple steps forward towards Rick. "What's there to say? You don't trust us anymore". Alex tries to plead for Gareth to do something but he doesn't care about Alex or his life. He just asks, "Rick, what do you want?"

"Where are our people?" Rick snaps.

"You didn't answer the question" Gareth growls and immediately bullets start flying.

I squeeze the trigger of my gun, hitting the man I had my eyes locked on. He falls back and my gun shot wound burns form using it. I feel hands pull me back and drag me behind a wall. I follow my dad and the group down an ally and into another courtyard where we get stopped by snipers on the roof.

"Come on!" Rick yells as we run the other way.

We run into a garage looking room but the door on the other end gets closed. We run to the other side and find an open door marked with a big, white A. We run down alleyways trying to get away but they reach us anyway.

I hear someone yell "Get them off B!" and they start shooting at us causing us to change directions and run down another alleyway. Then I finally realize what they are doing. They aren't trying to hit us, they're trying to lead us somewhere.

"Wait!" I yell at the group while firing up at the sniper, hitting some of them. The group doesn't listen and keeps running so I have no choice but to follow. We run past shipping containers and I hear voices coming from inside.

"WHat the hell?" I scream.

Rick pulls me along and into a room filled with candles. I look around to see writing on the wall

Never Trust We First Always

"What the hell is this place?" my dad asks.

"These people, I don't think they're trying to kill us" Michonne says, catching onto my theory as well.

"No, they're aiming at our feet" Rick adds.

𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐱.   carl grimesWhere stories live. Discover now